It's November 26th, the day squished in between two of my best friend's birthdays, the day of turkies, the day of thanks. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Today is the day we give thanks to everything we're thankful for. I am thankful for a lot of things.
-Friends: Really, this is the biggest thing I'm thankful for. I cannot stress enough on how much my friends mean to me. They're there for me when I need them, they listen and, almost most importantly, they make me laugh and feel good about myself. I don't know what I would do without them. I know that sometimes we get into fights and arguments and we disagree a lot, but at the end of the day we're always there for each other, even though we may not show it all the time. Family is included in this section too, because my family members are my friends, and it would be silly to not include them in this category.
-Music: Tied with, if not a little behind, friends. Music is my only love (so far) that is not my relative. It heals me when I'm weak, it brightens my day and it never ceases to cheer me up. I fall asleep listening to music, and I wake up listening to it. I play it when I'm getting ready, I write lyrics on my hand because I can't bring my iPod to school, and when I get home I do my homework with music playing in the background. The only time I don't listen to music is when I'm reading. I don't know why, but I can't seen to concentrate, even though I can concentrate perfectly while doing my homework when music is playing. Maybe the combination of two amazing things (books and music) is just too much for my brain to handle? Music also provides me with poetry and a beat too. Some lyrics are like my life story, while others aren't, but are amazing nonetheless. I like a variety of music, from one end of the spectrum to the other. For example, the sometimes vulgar and "interesting" themes of My Chemical Romance to the ever so innocent happy Owl City. Music is just amazing.
-CSI: Yes, an entire section devoted to CSI. I watch it when I'm sad, when I'm happy, when I'm bored, when I'm mad... heck, I'll watch it whenever. Most of all when I'm feeling down, because there is NOTHING a good dose of Greg can't do. Also, as an escape to get my problems off my mind and dive into the problems of others (I mean, being dead is qute a problem...). The forensics fascinate me, and there is no way I will ever go without CSI. When the series ends, I'll demand it begins again and doesn't stop until Marg Helgenberger dies. However, when and if it does, my heart will die a little inside, but then I'll celebrate the amazing TV show by watching every single episode on DVD. Okay, maybe that's a little much, but I truely am thankful for CSI.
-Jasper and Pasha (and Ernie): My beloved cats. My best friends. They really are the best of friends. They listen (or, I think they're listening... even though they don't understand me), they are so cute, they sleep in my lap and most of all, they DON'T TALK BACK. They can't tell my secrets, and they love me. Whenever I'm feeling glum, I go find them, make them purr and I'm restored. Plus, they're so darn cute.
-Books: As with CSI, they are an escape. I get attached to characters, and there are many books I cannot put down. I am a strong believer in the peaceful coexistence of Twilight and Harry Potter. I have a ton of books, and I want more. I love love love books and I don't know what I would do without them. They're amazingly awesome.

I suppose what I'm most thankful for is my life. I have a wonderful life with friends, books, music, CSI and kittens, and I wouldn't trade my life with a better one. I'm happy with what I have, and even though I'm sometimes sad and wish I could just l e a v e, I never will because I am so thankful that I have such an awesome life.
Happy Thanksgiving- and tell the people you're thankful for that you're thankful for them. :)

So I've been getting pretty ticked off at the whole Twilight Saga thing. I mean, sure, they are amazingly written books, but it's getting INSANE! Here, for your enjoyment, is a breakdown of the Twilight fans/anti-fans.
-The I-Only-Like-It-Because-It's-Cool Person: Simply put, they only like Twilight because it's the "in" thing to do. I knew someone like this, and they once said "OMG, Twilight is SOOO 2008... I hate it now." Previously, she had been obsessed and skipped school to see the actors at a local Hot Topic. In another case, this girl had switched from Team Edward (Monday) to Team Jacob (Tuesday) to I HATE TWILIGHT!!!!!1!!!1!!! (Friday).
-The TWILIGHT STINKS AND I DETEST IT! person: This person cannot stand Twilight and feels like shouting their opinion to the world when Twilight is mentioned. First, yes, we all have a right to our different opinions, but people (not just limited to Twilight anti-fans) are turning into an arrogant poopyface when they feel like shouting their opinions, especially if they're negative. Another thing, is that- okay, you can dislike it and maybe even despise it but that does not mean you can announce that to the world. If you don't like something that much- SHUT UP ABOUT IT! If you irk someone by dissing their favorite book, you're bound to get shunned and maybe even in a heated argument about something, so you'll end up talking about the book you supposedly abhor for a good couple minutes, compared to the zero minutes you would have spent if you had just not mention it at all. A simple "Oh, I don't like those books" would have sufficed too.
-The I Like The Books Not The Movie People. Example= ME! I love the books, they're wonderful, but the movie was blaaaah. Lots of other people fall into this category.
-The TWILIGHT IS LIFE people. Yeah, yeah, we all know who I'm talking about. That one annoying chick at your school who lives, eats, breathes, smells like, tastes and LOVES Twilight.
Annoying is just the light way to put it. I'm okay with people sporting Twilight shirts and wristbands and carrying the book around with them everywhere, but once you but the PERFUME, the SPARKLE DUST, the KEYCHAINS and the FREAKING BOOK BAGS, it's getting a little insane. Perfume? What do vampires smell like anyway? WTF moment in Hot Topic.
-The "There Are Books?" people. Saw the movie. Loved the movie. Bought all the products. Bought the movie. Watched the movie a million times. Yet, somehow, DIDN'T KNOW THERE WERE BOOKS BEFORE THE MOVIE. Either they didn't know or were too obsessed with OMG EDWARD CULLEN to even notice the row of Twilight books at the book store/library.

The movies, so far (I haven't seen New Moon yet), have stunk. I'm blaming Catherine Hardwicke for the first one, because I'm hoping the second, third and fourth ones are better with a different director. I guess, I had such high expectations for the movie, and I was disappointed because nothing could live up to Twilight the book. It was an excellent book, and movies are generally let downs, in the book-turned-movie case. I'm hoping they get better. But, oh, the only way they'll get better is if Kristen Stewart leaves. :D

Update time! So, about a year ago, my brother burnt My Chemical Romance CDs for me. Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge and The Black Parade. I never listened to them because I thought My Chemical Romance was this weird band and I was too busy listening to the Pussycat Dolls and Natasha Bedingfield to listen to a new band. Then, about a month ago when I got into Green Day, I started wondering about those CDs at the bottom of my bookshelf, and thinking maybe I should put them on my computer. And I did. And I loved them. I'm obsessed. It's amazing how many new bands I've gotten into this year. MGMT, Green Day, Rooney, My Chemical Romance, The Format, Fun., Journey and Queen. It's insane. I like it. So much music, so little time! That's all that's really new with me and my life. Write later- stay awesome, people.

Update!- I just got back from seeing New Moon with my besties, and I liked it a whole lot better than Twilight! I don't know if it was just a really horrible movie, but since I had such low expectations it was actually good, or if it was actually a good movie. Jasper had some amazing lines that Serena and I about died at those parts... :) Maybe seeing it with my besties made it better? Even though John was like -facepalm- the whole time, I don't think he detested it as much as he let on... I mean, come on- people throwing each other around and smashing them into the floor? "I'm gunna shoot your friggin' face off!" How can you not smile at that?

I wish it was raining because then I wouldn't feel bad about being lazy and staying inside. I got all dressed up in a really cute outfit, did my hair and now I'm sitting around being bored. I got some homework done, some laundry moving so it hasn't been too much of a worthless day. Maybe I'll clean my bathroom out. I need to get on track for my new bedroom. Which doesn't make sense because my bathroom is not my bedroom, but I still need to clean it out so that I can start of fresh. My bedroom was supposed to be done by the start of school, but that obviously didn't happen... I also need to pick out a story for speech team, do the rest of my homework and exercise. Well, I don't NEED to exercise, but I'd like to. Right now, I'm sitting in my lovely white-turned-dirty-tan chair and listening to some tunes. Oh, another thing I'd like to do is pick out some frames for the shelf above my desk. I was planning on putting pictures of me and my friends in there. In one frame, a picture of the group at Marnie's halloween party. And I'm leaving the others empty, so I can fill them up later. :) I'm going shoe shopping later today I hope; either today or tomorrow but I want to go today, when my mom gets home. I'd also like to play some video games. But- gasp- I only have: CSI, which I've played a thousand times, but I suppose I could solve murders some more...; SoulCalibur2, which I do not understand, but I do get to fight people; Guitar Hero, which is fun for a while... and Rayman Raving Rabbids, which is fun and completely pointless. Then I have my DS games... OOH! I could start Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box for the second time... that wouldn't be bad. Or I could read. Or do more laundry. Ha ha... right. Too many choices. Which is sad, because with all those choices I'm still bored. Maybe I'll flip a coin. Yes! So, Video Games vs. Something else (reading, movie, cleaning etc.) I'll go get my iTouch, which has a coin toss app. Video Games is tails, Something else is heads. Best two out of three. This is intense. Tails, Heads... ooo it's a tie.... suspenseful. Last one, to decide it all: HEADS! Something else it is. So, another competition. Reading vs. Movie, then (the winner) vs. cleaning. Best two out of three. Reading, tails, movies, heads. Tails, Heads... heads. Movie vs. Cleaning. Movie, tails, cleaning, heads. Heads, heads! Cleaning it is. Wow. Even in coin tosses productivity wins. Alrighty then, I'm off to clean my bathroom. I actually don't have much to do, just clean out the drawers and stuff. It'll be wonderful. Then, I'll play video games, since they were the first ones out, I don't want to make them feel included.
I still wish it was raining.

Okay, random rant on Facebook statuses. Here are a few examples of Facebook statuses that annoy the crap out of me:
1) The "Woe-is-me" status. Examples: "FML. Crying so hard right now." "i don't think ill ever stop crying... :'( :'( im so sad rite now" "don't talk to me, im super stressed and my life stinks" "no one cares about me and i could just die screw you people FML"
Okay, I'd first like to point out that FACEBOOK IS NOT YOUR PSYCHIATRIST. And frankly, after endless statuses about how crappy your life is, people begin to not care. I mean, sure we all have a tiny pinch of sympathy for you, but after about 10 statuses of the same "FML" status, we're just like- "Dude, stop complaining and shut up." Deal with your problems rather than talk about them on Facebook. And, really, your "friends" on Facebook probably don't know what the heck you're talking about, so updating your status 5,000 times will not make us understand if they're all about you and the anonymous people who supposedly made your life miserable. We're just annoyed with you.
2) The Mysterious Cryptic Status Updater . Examples: "You know what you've done wrong." "I love you, and you don't know who I am." "You better fix things before I unfriend you." or something of the life, where they use "you" to address a person. If you're personally friends with this person, you begin to worry. If it's a negative status, you wonder if they're talking about you and worry about what- if anything- you've done wrong. If it's your crush's status, and it's a love status, you get all excited and can't help but question: "Is it me they're talking about?!" Or, if it's a status that doesn't mention "you" but instead is about the status writer themself, and includes something about them and their life troubles/problems, but doesn't give much information at all, the natural instinct of human curiosity kicks in and you want to find out WHAT THE HECK ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT?! And you can't get your mind off of it, because you want to know so bad what they're talking about, you're practically driven insane by it. Even if you don't know the person well, you still want to know what's going on, even if it has no relevance whatsoever to you. I've done this before- talk about one person in my status and address them as "you". I haven't lately, but I vow from now on that I will never do that again. I find it quite annoying, fretting over something that may or may not involve me, and honestly, I don't want other people to feel the same way. Sure, it might be kind of fun, seeing people worry about something that may or may not involve them, but really- it's mean.
3) the ppl who write lyk dis and insist on updatin there status all the time with this same grammer and spelling errers. LEARN HOW TO SPELL, PROPERLY PUNCTUATE, USE THE RIGHT FORMS OF WORDS (i.e. they're/there/their; you're/your), AND USE PROPER GRAMMAR. I can't even read it. This does not only go for statuses, but general talk on the internet.
4) The People Who Capitalize Every Word And Do This With Their Punctuation !
It's fricking annoying. I could shank them. It's almost worse than #3.

I think that's all... I just needed to say that. Ha ha, people on the internet tick me off. Heck, people in real life tick me off too. I could go on for hours... but I won't because that's very negative and probably really boring...
I need to go to bed, but one last thing:
My bestie Shane told me this joke, and I think it's positively hilarious. Or, ghalarious as John would say.
"There was a sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center that said 'Keep off the Grass'."

It's November! You know what time it is... actually, you don't. But, I'd like to establish that every new month I will share things I am obsessed with. Kind of like those favorite videos on YouTube... only not on YouTube and a little different. At the beginning of a new month, I'll just share the things I'm loving right now, ranging from music to food to whatever. So, I'll start with music. Yeah, you guessed it: Electric Feel by MGMT is my everlasting obsession, but other music I'm really dancing to this month/week/period of time seeing as it changes sporadically is Peacemaker by Green Day, Short Skirt/Long Jacket by Cake, She Loves Everybody by Chester French, Last Night on Earth by Green Day, More Than a Feeling by Boston, The (Shipped) Gold Standard by Fall Out Boy and Mama's Room by Under the Influence of Giants. Funny story about that last song- so I got it off my mom's computer via flash drive, and when I loaded it onto my computer, the album artwork didn't show up, so I had to right click>Get Album Artwork, and this picture popped up of two black guys sitting acting all gangster. I didn't think of it much, as I was in a rush, but I thought "Hey, 'Mama's Room' isn't exactly the rap song... nor does it sound like it was sung by a black group..." but I wasn't one to judge. Next time I looked at it, I looked at the album cover, and compared it to the one on my mom's computer. On her computer, it was a blue scheme with four white men on a plane, with mannequins surrounding them. That's when I noticed that I did not have the right album cover... so I deleted the one on my computer and tried again. I got the same album cover. I made sure the artist/album name was right, then tried again. SAME THING. Then I looked at the word on the wrong cover: "Unda da Influence" instead of the correct version: "Under the Influence of Giants". I laughed really hard, then copy>pasted the right album cover in. It's all good now. But I still can't get over how the heck I overlooked the words! Ha ha ha...
Anyway, back on track. Some food I'm loving- candy! I have tons from Halloween. :D I am particularly infatuated with Kit Kats, Butterfingers and of course Hershey bars. As for drinks, I'm craving some cider, but I honestly don't know where to get some. x) I am in LOVE with Simply Lemonade, it tastes so good and reminds me of this lemonade I used to get in New Mexico and the mall. What's another thing I'm really liking? Ooh! Silver eyeliner. I use it sometimes and just on the inner corners of my eyes and it looks AWESOME, it really brightens my eyes, and it's not very IN YOUR FACE, but it's nice and soft, but effective. Cardigans. They're so cute and you can wear them different ways, they're amazing. I need more. I think that's basically it... ha ha I know there is more, but if I remember, I'll add to this post.

This month- things that have been irking me are people who underestimate things, like people who think Speech Team is easy, for example and all you have to do is talk about stuff. First, NO, it's actually hard. I'd like to see you get up in front of a bunch of sophisticated people and give a speech that is supposed to be funny. It gets competitive in High School! It's not all semi-lowkey as middle school was, no no no. Another thing, is when people say "I TOLD YOU SO!" whether or not they even "told you so". Like if you're just wondering something, and you can't quite remember a certain thing, so you ask someone and they say it's this instead of that, and you're like "okay, that's what I thought" and someone else is like "HA HA I TOLD YOU IT WAS THIS AND NOT THAT!" Okay, first of all- when exactly did you tell me it was this and not that? I wasn't saying that I'm right and you're wrong and I ended up being wrong, no, I didn't even choose sides. I was just wondering because I couldn't remember. That annoys the crap out of me, and you really just have to experience it yourself to get the full gist of what I'm saying. Something else, that shouldn't really bother me because it's not my problem, but is when people have NO COMMON SENSE, and have to ask about EVERY SINGLE THING, when really, if you just sat down and thought about for a second, you'd get it.

I'm getting really busy now, I have Library first Monday of every month, Science Olympiad every Tuesday (plus Gymnastics), Speech every Wednesday (plus ANTM and Dance), CSI, FlashForward and Project Runway on Thursday, and, well, nothing on Friday. But Thursdays and Fridays are lame lame lame because of my parent's schedules. Whatever. I like it though, there's less time for being bored. However, there is still homework piled on top of that. I'm in for a busy year.

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